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T. S. ALEXANDER.

HAME AND RING THEREFOR. No. 371,726. Patented Oct 18, 1Eii87.

INVENTOR 2 therefor, of which the following is a full,

NlTE STATES PATnNr rricnt THOMAS S. ALEXANDER, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE HALF TO SELAH A. HALL, OF SAME PLACE.

HAME AND RING THEREFOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,726, dated October 18, 1887. Application filed May 20, 1887. Serial No. 238,835. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I,THoMAs S. ALEXANDER, of Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Hames and Rings clear, and exact description.

The rings or terrets used on hames to guide and support the reins are usually of a special construction adapted to such purpose and no other. Thus they are cast and finished in one piece,and include a stem or post and shoulder or flange with attached rivet-shank, all onthe exterior of the ring and integral with it. Each hame has a hole in it to receive the rivet-shank or bent portion of the post of the ring for the purpose of attaching the latter by riveting to the hame. This is on many accounts an objectionable construction of the ring and attachment of it to the hame, especially when the hames with their rings, or the rings alone, are of polished metal, inasmuch as the post or projection upon the exterior of the ring, and solid with it greatly interferes with the polishing or finishing of the ring and necessitates a large amount of handwork. Moreover, in case of breakage of the rings or their necessary removal they can only be replaced by similar rings, which are not always conveniently to be found. Thus general harnessterrets cannot be used.

By my invention, however, I am enabled to use and change as required aring on the hame having no exterior projection which is solid with it-as, for instance, the ring described in my Letters Patent for improvement in harness terrets,No. 350, 712, dated October 12,1886,and which consists of a plain ring having a simple opening in it to provide for its attachment, and which in no way interferes with the finishing or polishing ot' the ring. This using on the hames the rings or terrets of other parts of a harness will be found exceedingly con venient, and to secure it, as well as to provide for using rings which can be cheaply and highly finished or polished, I not only make use of such plain and simple perforated rings for the hames, but construct the metallic portions of the hames with a post havingashoulder and integral with the upper metallic portion of each hame, so that the perforated ring can be readily attached thereto by simply screwing it onto the integral post of the hame, upsetting or riveting the outer end of said ring, partly broken away, as screwed onto the post which is integral with thehaine; and Fig. 3, a like View in part, showing the ring as secured to the post of the hame by upsetting or riveting the outer end of the post.

A is the upper metallic portion or section ofa hame, having the usual top loop, I), and provided with a post, 0, having a shoulder, d, integral with said portion of the haine for attachment of a plain harness-terret ring, B,

having a simple perforation, e, in it, such as I have hereinbefore described, said perforation being adapted to receive the post 0, so that the ring may be secured thereon and held firm against the shoulder at either by screwing the perforated ring thereon, upset- 8o ting the outer end of the post after its insertion through the perforation in the ring, or by both screwing the ring on the post and upsetting the outer end of the latter.

If desired, the shouldered post 0 may be made with a flange finish, f, where it joins the hame or hams-section A, alike to add strength and to give an improved appearance.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The hame or hanne section A, provided with a shouldered post, 0, integral with the hame and adapted to receive or carry the hame ring or terret, substantially as specified.

2. The combinatiomwith the hame or hamesection A, havinga post, 0, provided with an inner shoulder, 01, both integral with the heme,

of the plain ring or terret 13, having an aperture, e, the two parts A and B being united with each other by the passage of the post through the aperture in the ring or terret and securing the post therein, essentially as here in described.

THOMAS S. ALEXANDER. Witnesses:

Geo. W. FAIRUHILD, J. S. NoR'roN, Jr. 

